Stephen Stills, Bassplayer

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Man, I can't believe it took forty years for me to notice who the great bassplayer is on Crosby, Stills & Nash!!!
Stills KILLS on Suite Bluedy Jew Eyes
Sorry, I had a Jewish girlfriend back in high school who I took to see CSNY. 
By that time they'd recruited Greg Reeves on bass.
He was great too!!

[uwe]

I saw CS&N only a few months ago in Bonn. And had the same realization: He's a really nice melodic bass player with an idiosyncratic style. Unsung hero.

[patman]

Last year I bought a CSN greatest hits...

The cuts w/ Stills on bass are absolutely fearless...he actually played like all of the first album, and maybe parts? of the second.  All the later studio guys were boring (playing it "safe" in the studio)...

[Pilgrim]

Man, I can't believe it took forty years for me to notice who the great bassplayer is on Crosby, Stills & Nash!!!
Stills KILLS on Suite Bluedy Jew Eyes

ABSOLUTELY.  If I had to pick one CSN&Y cut as my all-time favorite, that would be it.

[Dave W]

If I had to pick the CS&N member I dislike the least, Stephen Stills would be it.  

[Highlander]

I saw CS&N only a few months ago in Bonn. And had the same realization: He's a really nice melodic bass player with an idiosyncratic style. Unsung hero.

He was very seriously considering touring with Hendrix, but circumstances took a final turn...

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Stephen Stills also played bass on Joni Mitchell's Night in the City.
He sounds like he's having a real good time playing rollicking bass stuff on the studio version, on her '68 album Song To A Seagull, produced by David Crosby.
Here's what it sounded like played solo LIVE in '67 without bass or vocal overdubs:



Now go get her debut album if you don't have it so you can hear Stills on bass!

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Here's Jimi helping SS with his first solo album, with Stephen on B3:


Cool bass on this one too. Not sure if it's Steve or not.
Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels is the only other bassplayer listed on this album, so it's either SS or him.

[Droombolus]

By that time they'd recruited Greg Reeves on bass.
He was great too!!

  One of the most boring bassplayers of the early 70s in my book. He's on some songs of Dave Mason's It's Like You Never Left album too and he never fails to annoy me every time I play that album. He sounds like he was born with wooden sticks for fingers ....... to my ears anyway .... 

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

He may SUCK on It's Like You Never Left but ya gotta LOVE Carry On:



Maybe it's SS. 

[uwe]

He certainly played bass on that song when I saw them live last year or the year before. I was very impressed by his bass playing, "un-bassplayerish", but very musical.